On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 07:59:23PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote: > --On 31 July 2011 19:34:47 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Strike 1. > > > > XML is basically nothing more than a tokenizer. You then still need to > > define a grammar to make sense out of the data contained in the xml. > > So all you did so far is add an obscuring encoding. > > I know what XML is. Actually you do not need to define a full grammar, > (in XML terms an xsd / schema / whatever). It's perfectly possible > to have an extensible xml format without a schema,
schema != grammar. a 'grammar' is a set of meanings which you assign to a set of messages. Yes, it's possible to use XML without a DTD, but that doesn't mean you're not using a grammar -- it just means you're not specifying the grammer in a well-documented place, that's all. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
